American Employers' Ins. Co. v. Huddleston

Appellees, the owners of the property, upon a jury’s verdict on special issues and the court’s additional authority, recovered a $10,-185 judgment against appellant as his bond-giving surety and J. W. Woodruff, the contractor, as for the breach of a builder’s contract by the latter for the erection of a residence for them on their land in the city of Galveston, $9,000 of the > award being for what the jury found was the difference in value of the work as done and what it would have been had it been constructed in full compliance with the contract, the remaining $1,185 for interest added by…